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by solenoid0937 5 days ago
This sort of thinking is what gets us into a world where journalists get bonesawed because some technolibertarians thought technology should be free.

You can give tools to defenders and not attackers. This is something that is possible to do.
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bigyabai 5 days ago
> This sort of thinking is what gets us into a world where journalists get bonesawed

Journalists get bonesawed because of an abuse of the concentration of power, which is what you're directly advocating for.

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solenoid0937 5 days ago
The concentration of power is there either way, giving everyone a zero day button does nothing but create chaos and disarray.
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bigyabai 5 days ago
We already gave everyone a zero-day button. Zero days are being discovered for Windows, macOS and Linux on a weekly or sometimes daily basis.

The result has been more proactive and informed OS security with a higher turnover rate for discovering, disclosing and patching new bugs. The market for creating zero-days has cratered and left talented malware developers without a cornered market. Frontier, uncensored LLMs like GLM 5.2 are proving instrumental in responding to cutting-edge adversaries.

Your theory does not hold up in practice and cannot be meaningfully extrapolated to more advanced AI.

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